Liberalisation transformed India’s economy and workforce. Government employees have been just as affected as their private counterparts, and perhaps even more so, as the government has...
Today’s front page of the Times of India carries a story about a 19 year-old who has been in jail in New Delhi for the past year on the charge that he stole 200 Rs because he could not post...
I recently had this piece appear on Outlook India online about what lessons India might be able to take away from the history of other South Asian countries’ anti-corruption efforts. Despite...
Nearly sixty-one years since its formal inauguration, the Indian Constitution still remains a contested site of “national” consciousness. Yet the Constitution itself is both constitutive...
In this piece in today’s Hindu I discuss the need for more legal infrastructure to tackle implementation failures in social welfare policy in India, building off the idea of the proposed...
In this piece in the most recent edition of the EPW I and my co-authors – Anjana Agarwal, Vrinda Bhandari, Ankit Goel, Karishma Kakkar, Reeba Muthalaly, Vivek Shivakumar, Meera Sreekumar, Surya...
Jindal Global Law School and Australian National University will be holding a conference entitled “Feminisms of Discontent: Global Contestations” this weekend in New Delhi with a wide...
The Times of India has this piece today on how an epileptic woman, Fatema, who received 50,000 Rs in June from the Delhi High Court for giving birth under a tree after being denied treatment at a...
Arjun Sheoran, a fifth year student at NLSIU who founded the free legal search engine Law Khoj has just launched a promising new site called Legalsutra which allows students and others to share...
I will sometimes ask students which right in the constitution they think is most important to Indians. Although I haven’t done this exercise elsewhere, I suspect in the United States students...